Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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